David Blaine: Brain Damage Anyone?

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By Nads | | 2:12 pm | 1 Comments
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David Blaine broke the world record for holding his breathe. He set the record of 17 minutes and 4 seconds. The last record was set by a man in Switzerland for 16 minutes and 32 seconds. I remember holding my breathe underwater at the pool when I was a kid and I never made it past 1 min. 30 seconds…so I’d say seventeen minutes is pretty impressive…I’m getting short of breathe just thinking about it.

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Although comedy is her profession, Nadine has accomplished a lot in her young age. She is a national champion black belt, a world-class soccer player, and an avid snowboarder. She started playing soccer at the age of 4, and continued playing through college where she majored in Biology, but quickly realized her destiny was to tell jokes, not to wear a lab coat. So she decided to be funny while finishing her Bachelors Degree in biology and continued on to get her M.B.A. Nadine’s comedy style is much like her athleticism, fearless. She’s made her way up the comedy ladder very quickly, and has become a club favorite at many of the country’s top comedy clubs, including the Improv chain. Performing in the Boston Comedy Festival and being noted as the “one of the youngest and brightest up and comers” and traveling to the Middle East to entertain the troops are just a few of her notable accomplishments. These days Nadine splits time between the stage, a radio studio, her computer blogging, and a television studio. Nadine’s TV, Radio, Writing credits include: national commercials, talking head roles on E! Entertainment, Showtime’s Hot Tamales Live, The Skinny: Fat Free News, The Sunny Side of The Truth: Real World Hollywood, TVgasm, Zazreport, Daddy’s Girls, Jerseylicious, celebrity interviews on Mania TV, a weekly half-hour television show that syndicates to colleges across the country for National Lampoon and a nightly radio show on XM Satellite Radio.

One Comment

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    Lizzypants
    Posted May 5, 2008 at 8:35 am

    I believe that for this record, he spends an hour or so inhaling pure oxygen, which expands your lung capacity way much. Aparently there are two separate world records for holding ones breath under water: one like this, with oxygenation first, and one straight up.

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